Coping with pediatric death in the ED by learning from parental experience.
The death of a pediatric patient in the emergency department generates an intense emotional response in the physician and staff. A majority of emergency physicians describe this as the most stressful event in emergency medicine. Few emergency physicians are instructed in the complexities of dealing with the death of a child. The authors have developed a teaching module that introduces aspects of pediatric death-telling through the eyes of parents who have personally experienced the death of a child.
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago 60612-7354, USA.
Ahrens
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D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D003643:Death; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011368:Professional-Family Relations